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This fits nicely into the story of my life A nice chapter leading up to the ****** The ****** that wasn't as long and steady as it should have been A ****** that took a vertical drop to an unresolved conclusion This fits nicely into the story of my life It took up a few pages But I'll have to wait for the publication of the sequal to find out what happens next This rough draft of Part II is a bad sketch There is grammer errors and mispellingz My punctuation. Is off as, well as my punctuality But the sequal will be released in time As the author of my story, I'm not sure any words will start with the letter you.
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Nov 27, 2011
Nov 27, 2011 at 9:08 PM UTC
******
If I were a teacher, I'd teach plagiarism Like a patent office. I'd teach publication Like plagiarism, And I'll proofread Any paper that properly Cites their sources. I'd teach every Kid from age X to Y That if I can't Lift them as High as they Want to go Than somebody Else Can. I would be the man, That teaches subjects Like I'm their King, And I'd spread Knowledge to every Acre of my empire I'd teach anything. See, I'd teach chemistry By making the reaction of Why and How Always synthesize Wow. I'd be a catalyst For positive change By keeping every School-yard bully and kid that's always picked last Around after class To teach them physics, Like if you have mass And you take up space Then you ******* matter. I'd put the cool in Coulombs. I'd be so electrostatic About magnetic fields You could feel my fluxin' Energy in the hallway. I'd say His story, And Her story, And everyone in-between's story, Is about the day their parents met. I'd teach sex-ed Like it's about the Day their parents met. And it wouldn't be weird It'd be beautiful. Because anybody falling In love is beautiful. And speaking of beautiful: Mathemagics, Would no longer Be a bottomless hat But a bird. With feathers and wings And things that always Find their way home. I'd transform The Fourier of Our foundations With equations Of equality Like you, And I are Always equal to Us. It'll be cake To be genius. ....Or pie Or whatever else is rational In this situation. And I Would measure intelligence With the answer to the question Of why we are alive. I'd standardize Every test By removing Any box that Takes us Further apart I would make art Combining every Color from East to West In a masterpiece That every child can draw We'll call it "human" I would solve World hunger And war, And every other problem That stems from greed With answers to the Questions that I still Don't know But I would show Everyone whose ever Made you hurt That a broken heart Has still got the Courage to beat Because it's their words Where the heart breathes Where the heart bleeds Where the heart sleeps And it's our dreams That keep us awake In the wake of our past So I'd put every love letter And box of their **** On a bonfire, light a match, And we would watch it burn. Hell, If I were a teacher I'd say there's So much left That I've still got To learn.
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Apr 11, 2016
Apr 11, 2016 at 1:31 AM UTC
If I Were a Teacher
If I were a teacher, I'd teach plagiarism Like a patent office. I'd teach publication Like plagiarism, And I'll proofread Any paper that properly Cites their sources. I'd teach every Kid from age X to Y That if I can't Lift them as High as they Want to go Than somebody Else Can. I would be the man, That teaches subjects Like I'm their King, And I'd spread Knowledge to every Acre of my empire I'd teach anything. See, I'd teach chemistry By making the reaction of Why and How Always synthesize Wow. I'd be a catalyst For positive change By keeping every School-yard bully and kid that's always picked last Around after class To teach them physics, Like if you have mass And you take up space Then you ******* matter. I'd put the cool in Coulombs. I'd be so electrostatic About magnetic fields You could feel my fluxin' Energy in the hallway. I'd say His story, And Her story, And everyone in-between's story, Is about the day their parents met. I'd teach sex-ed Like it's about the Day their parents met. And it wouldn't be weird It'd be beautiful. Because anybody falling In love is beautiful. And speaking of beautiful: Mathemagics, Would no longer Be a bottomless hat But a bird. With feathers and wings And things that always Find their way home. I'd transform The Fourier of Our foundations With equations Of equality Like you, And I are Always equal to Us. It'll be cake To be genius. ....Or pie Or whatever else is rational In this situation. And I Would measure intelligence With the answer to the question Of why we are alive. I'd standardize Every test By removing Any box that Takes us Further apart I would make art Combining every Color from East to West In a masterpiece That every child can draw We'll call it "human" I would solve World hunger And war, And every other problem That stems from greed With answers to the Questions that I still Don't know But I would show Everyone whose ever Made you hurt That a broken heart Has still got the Courage to beat Because it's their words Where the heart breathes Where the heart bleeds Where the heart sleeps And it's our dreams That keep us awake In the wake of our past So I'd put every love letter And box of their **** On a bonfire, light a match, And we would watch it burn. Hell, If I were a teacher I'd say there's So much left That I've still got To learn.
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This poem has been submitted for possible publication. It will be reposted as soon as possible upon final determination. Please feel free to peruse my poesy at your leisure. Thank you so much, PrttyBrd
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Oct 11, 2014
Oct 11, 2014 at 6:47 PM UTC
Letters to My Lover.....V
at the point of entry (explicit) it does not strike me strange at the point of entry when the heightened senses and the dark subconscious merge when the lust and the sweat intersect with ego desire and self is everlasting everything that the ***** words secretion is sticky on my tongue when I pant poems born in rawness and tears on this the last day of the year and eyes closed see visions extraordinaire and the Maker whispers in both ears see! it is the see of what is me, it is the point of entry and departure, one and the same, conception an immaculate mess, the emptying and the fulfilling, when unkempt promises are born free flowing and semi-truths transform into actualities unforeseen and my child cells of new poems are injected, stored, awaiting the birthright and the death of publication, my moment of privileged perfection passes and frowns and smiles are one and the same, silken thread wove open and shut the precision precious circumcising of flesh and soul departing the utter collapse from within, the drowning in the amniotic, rebirthing rebutting my denying that I have no more to give I believe I belong to you for it is what the desire firing cylinders say repeatedly in the union of the up and the down cycle: come, come inside me, I am the pleasure you are the treasure in one cup measured conjoined container when the point of entry is the point of departure and with eyes closed from satisfaction and prayer I see everything all at the same time, uttering: I am undone utterly and the difference between the end and the beginning can be seen only at the millisecond long seven decade coming point of entry 12/31/17 5:38am dawn dying and new day mourning
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Dec 31, 2017
Dec 31, 2017 at 5:59 AM UTC
at the (explicit) point of entry12/31
at the point of entry (explicit) it does not strike me strange at the point of entry when the heightened senses and the dark subconscious merge when the lust and the sweat intersect with ego desire and self is everlasting everything that the ***** words secretion is sticky on my tongue when I pant poems born in rawness and tears on this the last day of the year and eyes closed see visions extraordinaire and the Maker whispers in both ears see! it is the see of what is me, it is the point of entry and departure, one and the same, conception an immaculate mess, the emptying and the fulfilling, when unkempt promises are born free flowing and semi-truths transform into actualities unforeseen and my child cells of new poems are injected, stored, awaiting the birthright and the death of publication, my moment of privileged perfection passes and frowns and smiles are one and the same, silken thread wove open and shut the precision precious circumcising of flesh and soul departing the utter collapse from within, the drowning in the amniotic, rebirthing rebutting my denying that I have no more to give I believe I belong to you for it is what the desire firing cylinders say repeatedly in the union of the up and the down cycle: come, come inside me, I am the pleasure you are the treasure in one cup measured conjoined container when the point of entry is the point of departure and with eyes closed from satisfaction and prayer I see everything all at the same time, uttering: I am undone utterly and the difference between the end and the beginning can be seen only at the millisecond long seven decade coming point of entry 12/31/17 5:38am dawn dying and new day mourning
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All these stanzas look alike they talk about the same things with the same words, the same poem written over and over again like voices, whispers, copying each other unable to feel and trust experience differently, socialized for homogeneity unified but dull, strong but obedient their writing seemed the narratives of machines unable to innovate plagiarizing voices they believed were their own, authentic, pure their literary journals were a politics of masters of arts and agendas of contests like car commercials without a proper enjoyment of speed, or our favorite writers whose names we only knew because they were the ones who died at the right time while somebody was looking, reading them but the bookstores didn’t know their metaphors were weak, or their life’s work was merely symbolic, that’s the thing isn’t it poets are only symbols, as poems are only fluff, paper, the labor of writers-in-residence while the rest of the world are more interested in serial killers and which stocks might be worth getting into, and when to sell out investing in words seemed silly to them and, in my selected works there was nothing of how to be a Poet Laureate or how to win prizes exceptional or not, publication was left to amazon state grants, fellowships, visiting writers academics who never felt truly how to write poetry at its heart was a colonization of artists few could share what that meant, we were the first illiterate generation, spending more time with the internet than with books.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM UTC
On the decline of literacy
All these stanzas look alike they talk about the same things with the same words, the same poem written over and over again like voices, whispers, copying each other unable to feel and trust experience differently, socialized for homogeneity unified but dull, strong but obedient their writing seemed the narratives of machines unable to innovate plagiarizing voices they believed were their own, authentic, pure their literary journals were a politics of masters of arts and agendas of contests like car commercials without a proper enjoyment of speed, or our favorite writers whose names we only knew because they were the ones who died at the right time while somebody was looking, reading them but the bookstores didn’t know their metaphors were weak, or their life’s work was merely symbolic, that’s the thing isn’t it poets are only symbols, as poems are only fluff, paper, the labor of writers-in-residence while the rest of the world are more interested in serial killers and which stocks might be worth getting into, and when to sell out investing in words seemed silly to them and, in my selected works there was nothing of how to be a Poet Laureate or how to win prizes exceptional or not, publication was left to amazon state grants, fellowships, visiting writers academics who never felt truly how to write poetry at its heart was a colonization of artists few could share what that meant, we were the first illiterate generation, spending more time with the internet than with books.
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It takes me perhaps a few minutes, at most, to write a poem. In the brief instant between creation and publication, I am convinced that this poem cannot be improved. But note, it is never the claim, that the poem is any good. I write so that I may express what I had genuinely felt for a few moments.
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Dec 4, 2021
Dec 4, 2021 at 10:43 AM UTC
Writing poetry
I’ve summed up the equation for my isolation It's People who look up, look down, left and right Desperate for information We never looked inside for much needed inspiration Instead, We lead a life of impulsive behavior mixed with preoccupation for our own reputation I've lost toleration for the weak minded population Individual thoughts slowly decay and eventually cut off circulation Sending thoughts on permanent vacation, worthy of respiration, ideas now suffer suffocation If this is my "generation" I’d rather live in hibernation You can take this as retaliation I just don’t understand why we seek gratification for having no imagination? I swear, It’s like the world around me is nothing more Than telecommunication Different voices yet the same conversation Broad interpretation leaves room for destructive ********** Shedding uniqueness for trendy consolidation **Who the **** do you think you are? a star?** You're no constellation You expel no illumination Your personality is a narrow cultivation of Seedy corporation, Media publication, And lack of moral stabilization Let me give you clarification Meditation is my detonation Put words in your mouth before you die of starvation We all have a fixation on giving into temptation Putting ourselves in situations were Passion is stimulation, Trust is manipulation and Love is *********** Pour out your heartache in perspiration After *********** we expect a standing ovation *** is nothing more than sensation* ....are we lost beyond the point of navigation?
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Nov 28, 2011
Nov 28, 2011 at 12:35 AM UTC
Meditation is My Detonation
I’ve summed up the equation for my isolation It's People who look up, look down, left and right Desperate for information We never looked inside for much needed inspiration Instead, We lead a life of impulsive behavior mixed with preoccupation for our own reputation I've lost toleration for the weak minded population Individual thoughts slowly decay and eventually cut off circulation Sending thoughts on permanent vacation, worthy of respiration, ideas now suffer suffocation If this is my "generation" I’d rather live in hibernation You can take this as retaliation I just don’t understand why we seek gratification for having no imagination? I swear, It’s like the world around me is nothing more Than telecommunication Different voices yet the same conversation Broad interpretation leaves room for destructive ********** Shedding uniqueness for trendy consolidation **Who the **** do you think you are? a star?** You're no constellation You expel no illumination Your personality is a narrow cultivation of Seedy corporation, Media publication, And lack of moral stabilization Let me give you clarification Meditation is my detonation Put words in your mouth before you die of starvation We all have a fixation on giving into temptation Putting ourselves in situations were Passion is stimulation, Trust is manipulation and Love is *********** Pour out your heartache in perspiration After *********** we expect a standing ovation *** is nothing more than sensation* ....are we lost beyond the point of navigation?
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709 Publication—is the Auction Of the Mind of Man— Poverty—be justifying For so foul a thing Possibly—but We—would rather From Our Garret go White—Unto the White Creator— Than invest—Our Snow— Thought belong to Him who gave it— Then—to Him Who bear Its Corporeal illustration—Sell The Royal Air— In the Parcel—Be the Merchant Of the Heavenly Grace— But reduce no Human Spirit To Disgrace of Price—
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Publication—is the Auction
Today's poem is letting friends know I've taken a new vow In a book called, "Red, Blue, Purple" Available on Amazon With words of heart Wanting to touch other hearts If they open the doors And let me in. Note: My publication is really on Amazon.com: Red, Blue, Purple by Tulip Chowdhury
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 1:13 PM UTC
Red, Blue, Purple
Corina Junghiatu is a bilingual poet/writer hailing from Romania. She holds a Master Degree in Philology and Phychopedagogy and likewise she graduated from The Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in Bucharest. She speaks five foreign languages. Corina has written and publishing two books of poetry: „Exile in the light” and „The ritual of a Sunrise”. She is Administrator and Publication Coordinator of Motivational Strips, editor of "Bharath Vision" website, and Chief Advisor of World Nations Writers' Union Kazakhstan. Corina has won many awards from international institutions of repute, for poetry. Recently, Corina Junghiatu, together with 350 poets and writers from 80 countries, received a certificate of appreciation for her entire literary activity, on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the Independence Day of the Republic of India. This certificate was was handed by the famous writer Shiju H. Pallithazheth the Founder of Motivational Strips, World's Most Active Writers Forum and Padma Shree Dr. Vishnu Pandya, President of Gujarat Sahitya Akademy, a government institution of the state of Gujarat (India).
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Aug 31, 2020
Aug 31, 2020 at 10:45 AM UTC
Corina Junghiatu awarded by Motivational Strips and Gujarat Sahitya Akademy.
***Fell heal over heads           in love with a poet,   he's mostly a rhyme schemer        likes Poe and his dark Raven,   in actuality,  I'd fancy him more if     he were like Pablo Neruda, but I digress I'm much accurately fashioned after Emily Dickinson         chasing heaven's June bugs toing and froing, we'd meet at a perfectly superfluous coffee shop     he'll be murmuring elegiac pentameter I'm simply looking to devour precious words,     we'd argue about abstract destinations,               straight forward persuasions and                premonitions of wayward ink allusions, some days I want to claw mine own eyes out                amid all that nonsensical alliteration   others, I want to rip out embellishments                    of his black heart's magnification, he mutters tumult under his breath,      states he's abundantly sickly tired of all my          fanatical froufroutant  flourished fantasies, albeit, we're mild mannered artistes          of overstatement and simplification                thus, we continue laying it on thickly I, with my hyperbolic cuppa tea and honey,        he's all brass tacks, no nonsense black coffee ultimately, we reservedly seek gratification,       envisioning who functionally makes it first to a finished line of manifestations's publication,            in eternity's poetic intentions and beyond***
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 9:14 AM UTC
Fell in love with a poet
***Fell heal over heads           in love with a poet,   he's mostly a rhyme schemer        likes Poe and his dark Raven,   in actuality,  I'd fancy him more if     he were like Pablo Neruda, but I digress I'm much accurately fashioned after Emily Dickinson         chasing heaven's June bugs toing and froing, we'd meet at a perfectly superfluous coffee shop     he'll be murmuring elegiac pentameter I'm simply looking to devour precious words,     we'd argue about abstract destinations,               straight forward persuasions and                premonitions of wayward ink allusions, some days I want to claw mine own eyes out                amid all that nonsensical alliteration   others, I want to rip out embellishments                    of his black heart's magnification, he mutters tumult under his breath,      states he's abundantly sickly tired of all my          fanatical froufroutant  flourished fantasies, albeit, we're mild mannered artistes          of overstatement and simplification                thus, we continue laying it on thickly I, with my hyperbolic cuppa tea and honey,        he's all brass tacks, no nonsense black coffee ultimately, we reservedly seek gratification,       envisioning who functionally makes it first to a finished line of manifestations's publication,            in eternity's poetic intentions and beyond***
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The Elders Warn Skinny Vinny Skinny Viiny, eat your meals - no spitting and no sputtering; just chew and swallow everything mom feeds you Think of the millions in Third World Countries who daily and nightly can't afford food Skinny Vinny, eat your food or when you're asleep alone at night the cockroaches will gather in your room and they will nibble and nibble and nibble at your arms and your legs and they will nibble and nibble all night and all moonlight and they will nibble away all your fingers and toes So if you don't want that to happen, Skinny Vinny, eat all your meals all that mom feeds you But Skinny Vinny Ignores Her Elders Now, one night, Skinny Vinny saw that all the cockroaches did come  (only in her dream, though) and in that dream the cockroaches ate away exactly as her parents had prophesied - nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble at her fingers and at her toes  - and Skinny Vinny was exactly bereft of all her yummy fingers and all her smelly toes Skinny Vinny Learns Her Lesson And by this dream Skinny Vinny had the **** beaten out of her so much by fear that from then on she ate all; she ate all at hand she ate all she was fed and all at the table and she demanded more by platefuls and bucketfuls and she ate by trolley-fulls and delivery-truck-fulls and her parents had to bring in containers shipped in from China daily all by Double Happiness exclusive deals And Skinny Vinny ate and ate and no food went to waste; and her parents spent all their inherited fortunes and they worked and worked day and night even at the time when cockroaches fly so they could feed Skinny Vinny who ate all far and nigh - and when last I checked the Daily Mule ( whose publication motto is: We swear to carry nothing but unprocessed truth) the parents are still working in the mines in order to feed Skinny Vinny who once would eat nothing All parents learn your lesson *And so be warned all ye parents that threaten harm to your children because they will not eat - the very threats will be laid on your heads and you will be digging in coal mines to feed your kids*
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Sep 16, 2014
Sep 16, 2014 at 3:17 AM UTC
eat your food, a cautionary tale
The Elders Warn Skinny Vinny Skinny Viiny, eat your meals - no spitting and no sputtering; just chew and swallow everything mom feeds you Think of the millions in Third World Countries who daily and nightly can't afford food Skinny Vinny, eat your food or when you're asleep alone at night the cockroaches will gather in your room and they will nibble and nibble and nibble at your arms and your legs and they will nibble and nibble all night and all moonlight and they will nibble away all your fingers and toes So if you don't want that to happen, Skinny Vinny, eat all your meals all that mom feeds you But Skinny Vinny Ignores Her Elders Now, one night, Skinny Vinny saw that all the cockroaches did come  (only in her dream, though) and in that dream the cockroaches ate away exactly as her parents had prophesied - nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble at her fingers and at her toes  - and Skinny Vinny was exactly bereft of all her yummy fingers and all her smelly toes Skinny Vinny Learns Her Lesson And by this dream Skinny Vinny had the **** beaten out of her so much by fear that from then on she ate all; she ate all at hand she ate all she was fed and all at the table and she demanded more by platefuls and bucketfuls and she ate by trolley-fulls and delivery-truck-fulls and her parents had to bring in containers shipped in from China daily all by Double Happiness exclusive deals And Skinny Vinny ate and ate and no food went to waste; and her parents spent all their inherited fortunes and they worked and worked day and night even at the time when cockroaches fly so they could feed Skinny Vinny who ate all far and nigh - and when last I checked the Daily Mule ( whose publication motto is: We swear to carry nothing but unprocessed truth) the parents are still working in the mines in order to feed Skinny Vinny who once would eat nothing All parents learn your lesson *And so be warned all ye parents that threaten harm to your children because they will not eat - the very threats will be laid on your heads and you will be digging in coal mines to feed your kids*
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hymn to Apollo by Michael R. Burch something of sunshine attracted my i as it lazed on the afternoon sky, golden, splashed on the easel of god; what, i thought, could this elfin stuff be, to, phantomlike, flit through tall trees on fall days, such as these? and the breeze whispered a dirge to the vanishing light; enchoired with the evening, it sang; its voice enchantedly rang chanting “Night!” . . . till all the bright light retired, expired. This poem appeared in my high school literary journal, the Lantern, so it was written by age 18, but probably around age 16 or 17. That was my "cummings" period. Keywords/Tags: sun, god, sunshine, Apollo, elfin, phantom, ghostly, magical, enchanted, bright, light, brilliant, sky, golden Moon Lake by Michael R. Burch Starlit recorder of summer nights, what magic spell bewitches you? They say that all lovers love first in the dark... Is it true? Is it true? Is it true? Starry-eyed seer of all that appears and all that has appeared— What sights have you seen? What dreams have you dreamed? What rhetoric have you heard? Is love an oration, or is it a word? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? I believe I wrote this poem in my late teens, during my “Romantic Period.” Tomb Lake by Michael R. Burch Go down to the valley where mockingbirds cry, alone, ever lonely . . . yes, go down to die. And dream in your dying you never shall wake. Go down to the valley; go down to Tomb Lake. Tomb Lake is a cauldron of souls such as yours — mad souls without meaning, frail souls without force. Tomb Lake is a graveyard reserved for the dead. They lie in her shallows and sleep in her bed. I believe this poem and "Moon Lake" were companion poems, written around my senior year in high school, in 1976. In addition to having similar titles, they had similar "staircase" indention styles. According to my notes, I modified "Moon Lake" two years later in 1978, at which time the poem was substantially finished. I then modified "Tomb Lake" in 1981, but must have forgotten about it, because I don't show that I ever submitted the poem for publication or did anything with it for more than 40 years. Keywords/Tags: Moon, Lake, Lakes, Water, Reflection, Reflections, Image, Imagery, Mirror, Magic, Magician, Seer, Prophet, Shaman, Spell, Spells, Enchantment, Sorcery, Bewitchment, Bewilderment, Incantation, Rhapsody, Love Talk, Love Potion
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Mar 29, 2020
Mar 29, 2020 at 4:20 AM UTC
hymn to Apollo
hymn to Apollo by Michael R. Burch something of sunshine attracted my i as it lazed on the afternoon sky, golden, splashed on the easel of god; what, i thought, could this elfin stuff be, to, phantomlike, flit through tall trees on fall days, such as these? and the breeze whispered a dirge to the vanishing light; enchoired with the evening, it sang; its voice enchantedly rang chanting “Night!” . . . till all the bright light retired, expired. This poem appeared in my high school literary journal, the Lantern, so it was written by age 18, but probably around age 16 or 17. That was my "cummings" period. Keywords/Tags: sun, god, sunshine, Apollo, elfin, phantom, ghostly, magical, enchanted, bright, light, brilliant, sky, golden Moon Lake by Michael R. Burch Starlit recorder of summer nights, what magic spell bewitches you? They say that all lovers love first in the dark... Is it true? Is it true? Is it true? Starry-eyed seer of all that appears and all that has appeared— What sights have you seen? What dreams have you dreamed? What rhetoric have you heard? Is love an oration, or is it a word? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? I believe I wrote this poem in my late teens, during my “Romantic Period.” Tomb Lake by Michael R. Burch Go down to the valley where mockingbirds cry, alone, ever lonely . . . yes, go down to die. And dream in your dying you never shall wake. Go down to the valley; go down to Tomb Lake. Tomb Lake is a cauldron of souls such as yours — mad souls without meaning, frail souls without force. Tomb Lake is a graveyard reserved for the dead. They lie in her shallows and sleep in her bed. I believe this poem and "Moon Lake" were companion poems, written around my senior year in high school, in 1976. In addition to having similar titles, they had similar "staircase" indention styles. According to my notes, I modified "Moon Lake" two years later in 1978, at which time the poem was substantially finished. I then modified "Tomb Lake" in 1981, but must have forgotten about it, because I don't show that I ever submitted the poem for publication or did anything with it for more than 40 years. Keywords/Tags: Moon, Lake, Lakes, Water, Reflection, Reflections, Image, Imagery, Mirror, Magic, Magician, Seer, Prophet, Shaman, Spell, Spells, Enchantment, Sorcery, Bewitchment, Bewilderment, Incantation, Rhapsody, Love Talk, Love Potion
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The excerpt below is from an interview Philip Roth gave to Daniel Sandstrom, the cultural editor at Svenska Dagbladet, for publication in Swedish translation in that newspaper, and in its original English in the Book Review of the New York Times (March 1, 2014). It was laid out in normal article (paragraph) form, but I chose to re-present here, line by line, sentence by sentence, for it struck me as I first read it, as a prose poem, and a source of inspiration for me.  But then I realized, I could not improve upon his words, just risk diminishing them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The struggle with writing is over” is a recent quote. Could you describe that struggle, and also, tell us something about your life now when you are not writing? Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life. It was also my good luck that happiness didn’t matter to me and I had no compassion for myself. Though why such a task should have fallen to me I have no idea. Maybe writing protected me against even worse menace. Now? Now I am a bird sprung from a cage instead of (to reverse Kafka’s famous conundrum) a bird in search of a cage. The horror of being caged has lost its thrill. It is now truly a great relief, something close to a sublime experience, to have nothing more to worry about than death. -------------------------------------------------------------­----- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/my-life-as-a-writer.html?_r=0
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 12:18 PM UTC
In Memoriam, Philip Roth: "If I did not do it, I would die"
The excerpt below is from an interview Philip Roth gave to Daniel Sandstrom, the cultural editor at Svenska Dagbladet, for publication in Swedish translation in that newspaper, and in its original English in the Book Review of the New York Times (March 1, 2014). It was laid out in normal article (paragraph) form, but I chose to re-present here, line by line, sentence by sentence, for it struck me as I first read it, as a prose poem, and a source of inspiration for me.  But then I realized, I could not improve upon his words, just risk diminishing them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “The struggle with writing is over” is a recent quote. Could you describe that struggle, and also, tell us something about your life now when you are not writing? Everybody has a hard job. All real work is hard. My work happened also to be undoable. Morning after morning for 50 years, I faced the next page defenseless and unprepared. Writing for me was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life. It was also my good luck that happiness didn’t matter to me and I had no compassion for myself. Though why such a task should have fallen to me I have no idea. Maybe writing protected me against even worse menace. Now? Now I am a bird sprung from a cage instead of (to reverse Kafka’s famous conundrum) a bird in search of a cage. The horror of being caged has lost its thrill. It is now truly a great relief, something close to a sublime experience, to have nothing more to worry about than death. -------------------------------------------------------------­----- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/my-life-as-a-writer.html?_r=0
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Moon Lake by Michael R. Burch Starlit recorder of summer nights, what magic spell bewitches you? They say that all lovers love first in the dark... Is it true? Is it true? Is it true? Starry-eyed seer of all that appears and all that has appeared— What sights have you seen? What dreams have you dreamed? What rhetoric have you heard? Is love an oration, or is it a word? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? I believe I wrote this poem in my late teens, during my “Romantic Period.” Tomb Lake by Michael R. Burch Go down to the valley where mockingbirds cry, alone, ever lonely . . . yes, go down to die. And dream in your dying you never shall wake. Go down to the valley; go down to Tomb Lake. Tomb Lake is a cauldron of souls such as yours — mad souls without meaning, frail souls without force. Tomb Lake is a graveyard reserved for the dead. They lie in her shallows and sleep in her bed. I believe this poem and "Moon Lake" were companion poems, written around my senior year in high school, in 1976. In addition to having similar titles, they had similar "staircase" indention styles. According to my notes, I modified "Moon Lake" two years later in 1978, at which time the poem was substantially finished. I then modified "Tomb Lake" in 1981, but must have forgotten about it, because I don't show that I ever submitted the poem for publication or did anything with it for more than 40 years. Keywords/Tags: Moon, Lake, Lakes, Water, Reflection, Reflections, Image, Imagery, Mirror, Magic, Magician, Seer, Prophet, Shaman, Spell, Spells, Enchanted, Enchantment, Sorcery, Bewitchment, Bewilderment, Incantation, Rhapsody, Love Talk, Love Potion, Romance, First Love, Dark, Dreams
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Feb 23, 2020
Feb 23, 2020 at 12:31 AM UTC
Moon Lake
Moon Lake by Michael R. Burch Starlit recorder of summer nights, what magic spell bewitches you? They say that all lovers love first in the dark... Is it true? Is it true? Is it true? Starry-eyed seer of all that appears and all that has appeared— What sights have you seen? What dreams have you dreamed? What rhetoric have you heard? Is love an oration, or is it a word? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? I believe I wrote this poem in my late teens, during my “Romantic Period.” Tomb Lake by Michael R. Burch Go down to the valley where mockingbirds cry, alone, ever lonely . . . yes, go down to die. And dream in your dying you never shall wake. Go down to the valley; go down to Tomb Lake. Tomb Lake is a cauldron of souls such as yours — mad souls without meaning, frail souls without force. Tomb Lake is a graveyard reserved for the dead. They lie in her shallows and sleep in her bed. I believe this poem and "Moon Lake" were companion poems, written around my senior year in high school, in 1976. In addition to having similar titles, they had similar "staircase" indention styles. According to my notes, I modified "Moon Lake" two years later in 1978, at which time the poem was substantially finished. I then modified "Tomb Lake" in 1981, but must have forgotten about it, because I don't show that I ever submitted the poem for publication or did anything with it for more than 40 years. Keywords/Tags: Moon, Lake, Lakes, Water, Reflection, Reflections, Image, Imagery, Mirror, Magic, Magician, Seer, Prophet, Shaman, Spell, Spells, Enchanted, Enchantment, Sorcery, Bewitchment, Bewilderment, Incantation, Rhapsody, Love Talk, Love Potion, Romance, First Love, Dark, Dreams
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Circe by Michael R. Burch She spoke and her words were like a ringing echo dying or like smoke rising and drifting while the earth below is spinning. She awoke with a cry from a dream that had no ending, without hope or strength to rise, into hopelessness descending. And an ache in her heart toward that dream, retreating, left a wake of small waves in circles never completing. Originally published by Romantics Quarterly Keywords/Tags: Circe, enigma, enigmatic, enchantress, siren, enchanted, witch, goddess, magic, Ulysses, pigs, sty Moon Lake by Michael R. Burch Starlit recorder of summer nights, what magic spell bewitches you? They say that all lovers love first in the dark... Is it true? Is it true? Is it true? Starry-eyed seer of all that appears and all that has appeared— What sights have you seen? What dreams have you dreamed? What rhetoric have you heard? Is love an oration, or is it a word? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? I believe I wrote this poem in my late teens, during my “Romantic Period.” Tomb Lake by Michael R. Burch Go down to the valley where mockingbirds cry, alone, ever lonely . . . yes, go down to die. And dream in your dying you never shall wake. Go down to the valley; go down to Tomb Lake. Tomb Lake is a cauldron of souls such as yours — mad souls without meaning, frail souls without force. Tomb Lake is a graveyard reserved for the dead. They lie in her shallows and sleep in her bed. I believe this poem and "Moon Lake" were companion poems, written around my senior year in high school, in 1976. In addition to having similar titles, they had similar "staircase" indention styles. According to my notes, I modified "Moon Lake" two years later in 1978, at which time the poem was substantially finished. I then modified "Tomb Lake" in 1981, but must have forgotten about it, because I don't show that I ever submitted the poem for publication or did anything with it for more than 40 years. Keywords/Tags: Moon, Lake, Lakes, Water, Reflection, Reflections, Image, Imagery, Mirror, Magic, Magician, Seer, Prophet, Shaman, Spell, Spells, Enchantment, Sorcery, Bewitchment, Bewilderment, Incantation, Rhapsody, Love Talk, Love Potion
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Mar 28, 2020
Mar 28, 2020 at 4:47 AM UTC
Circe
Circe by Michael R. Burch She spoke and her words were like a ringing echo dying or like smoke rising and drifting while the earth below is spinning. She awoke with a cry from a dream that had no ending, without hope or strength to rise, into hopelessness descending. And an ache in her heart toward that dream, retreating, left a wake of small waves in circles never completing. Originally published by Romantics Quarterly Keywords/Tags: Circe, enigma, enigmatic, enchantress, siren, enchanted, witch, goddess, magic, Ulysses, pigs, sty Moon Lake by Michael R. Burch Starlit recorder of summer nights, what magic spell bewitches you? They say that all lovers love first in the dark... Is it true? Is it true? Is it true? Starry-eyed seer of all that appears and all that has appeared— What sights have you seen? What dreams have you dreamed? What rhetoric have you heard? Is love an oration, or is it a word? Have you heard? Have you heard? Have you heard? I believe I wrote this poem in my late teens, during my “Romantic Period.” Tomb Lake by Michael R. Burch Go down to the valley where mockingbirds cry, alone, ever lonely . . . yes, go down to die. And dream in your dying you never shall wake. Go down to the valley; go down to Tomb Lake. Tomb Lake is a cauldron of souls such as yours — mad souls without meaning, frail souls without force. Tomb Lake is a graveyard reserved for the dead. They lie in her shallows and sleep in her bed. I believe this poem and "Moon Lake" were companion poems, written around my senior year in high school, in 1976. In addition to having similar titles, they had similar "staircase" indention styles. According to my notes, I modified "Moon Lake" two years later in 1978, at which time the poem was substantially finished. I then modified "Tomb Lake" in 1981, but must have forgotten about it, because I don't show that I ever submitted the poem for publication or did anything with it for more than 40 years. Keywords/Tags: Moon, Lake, Lakes, Water, Reflection, Reflections, Image, Imagery, Mirror, Magic, Magician, Seer, Prophet, Shaman, Spell, Spells, Enchantment, Sorcery, Bewitchment, Bewilderment, Incantation, Rhapsody, Love Talk, Love Potion
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Reading poems is the way of discovering that people  write for fun, they write of the very things that you think preposterous. They write of love, and you write of hate. Poetry is in many ways charade of indiscipline, even gross indignity. Gives you joy rides and goose bumps. Why do people write- poetry? I deliberate and out of it curse people, write a poem send it for publication. The laptop creaks. The editor whines when flooded by my irksome mails. In the streets of the city, and there are plenty, I see a rag picker. I see the ***** I see the blinded with begging bowl, but singing. Chanting. I see barely seven or eight a child pleading for coins and mercy. I stalk away. Walk away. My hauteur a new demeanour. Why do people write- poetry?
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Oct 9, 2015
Oct 9, 2015 at 5:29 AM UTC
Why Do People Write- Poetry?
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Dec 14, 2014
Dec 14, 2014 at 2:36 AM UTC
Letters to My Lover..... VIII
In this modern world of seldom proper and overused punctuation the smallest of them all seems to leave the biggest connotation the dot, or period, as some would say under the proper observation has given text-ers and type-ers of this technology driven generation and easy way to send a message in a short-hand communication One dot can signify the end of the certain conversation and three dots can lead one to believe that there will be continuation Five dots can relay the writer's growing frustration as he believes the recipient might not've read his brief annotation and with growing anger at the recepients subtle procrastination he can send the word 'hello...' as a sign of quizzical agitation Three dots can be used to signal a reader to use insinuation as in 'They went into the bedroom and then...(use your imagination) Professionals use the multiple dots when invoking exaggeration by skipping parts in a speech to warp the innocent quotation such as 'The senator voted against the new... school legislation' We know that dots after every letter are a definite implication that the word is an acronym, and there's one for every situation such as O.H. P.O.O. means Overly Happy People Offer Osculations Yes, the period can be used so freely, with such adaptation depending on the context, it can symbolize a sigh of exasperation It is a punctuation so versatile, it has almost no limitation and more than one of its forms can be found in every publication I don't hesitate, as you can see, to submit this postulation flexibility will always be in the period's reputation...
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Jun 29, 2011
Jun 29, 2011 at 7:52 PM UTC
Super Punctuation
In this modern world of seldom proper and overused punctuation the smallest of them all seems to leave the biggest connotation the dot, or period, as some would say under the proper observation has given text-ers and type-ers of this technology driven generation and easy way to send a message in a short-hand communication One dot can signify the end of the certain conversation and three dots can lead one to believe that there will be continuation Five dots can relay the writer's growing frustration as he believes the recipient might not've read his brief annotation and with growing anger at the recepients subtle procrastination he can send the word 'hello...' as a sign of quizzical agitation Three dots can be used to signal a reader to use insinuation as in 'They went into the bedroom and then...(use your imagination) Professionals use the multiple dots when invoking exaggeration by skipping parts in a speech to warp the innocent quotation such as 'The senator voted against the new... school legislation' We know that dots after every letter are a definite implication that the word is an acronym, and there's one for every situation such as O.H. P.O.O. means Overly Happy People Offer Osculations Yes, the period can be used so freely, with such adaptation depending on the context, it can symbolize a sigh of exasperation It is a punctuation so versatile, it has almost no limitation and more than one of its forms can be found in every publication I don't hesitate, as you can see, to submit this postulation flexibility will always be in the period's reputation...
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Hey, kid I really like your work.  You could win a hundred bucks. Oh, Andrea Button!  How sweet of you to notice.   What do I do what do I do what do I have to do. Create an account, handsome.  Accept the terms, ****  Post your best work, lover.   So you’ll give me one hundred dollars for my soul, Miss Button? "And you license to Tallmadge all patent, trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights and proprietary rights in and to such Content for publication on the Service pursuant to these Terms of Service." I said a chance to win, sucker. Oh Andrea!  You devil. I am a sucker..., for fine print.
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Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 11:36 AM UTC
Ode to Adrea Button
Sara L Russell 8th June 2016 _________________________________________________ Dear Sir or Madam, we regret to say your manuscript is not quite what we need; so therefore we're returning it today, with all good wishes that you will succeed. * * * Dear [your name here] regretfully these days we do not read submitted manuscripts; we're mainly doing television plays and cannot give out full critiques or tips. * * * "I'm sorry but our editor's away and he's the only one for poetry what was your name again? But I will say we will get back to you eventually." * * * No news is good news, so we carry on till everything but desperation's gone.
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Jun 8, 2016
Jun 8, 2016 at 3:47 AM UTC
The Complication of Publication (sonnet)
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 12:13 PM UTC
Letters to My Lover.....III
The lights were still on As I lifted myself from The air mattress To check my back For bedbug bites I noticed a young roach In the sink He scattered quickly Then stopped Staring As if to dare me To try and **** him He was the prideful matador And I the swollen eyed Stumbling bull It was life and death I tried to smack him With a water bottle But he ran and hid behind a pipe So I took a bottle of aftershave Tried to drown the ******* In a refreshing burning winterfresh But he was untouched by the splash Then he scattered across the wall I ran and grabbed the worst book In my collection The premier book of major poets, 1970 They printed Simon and Garfunkel In there I tried to smash the cunning cockroach But my fingers touched the Smashed corpse Of a previous conquest I quickly threw the book in disgust And wished it was the roaches Wife or mother Lying dead Smashed by an awful publication He ran quickly Laughing at my frustration Proud Then he settled in a hole Under the edge of the counter He was the victor He raised his sword Toward the sun And stabbed me in the heart I fell onto the air mattress Drooling The young roach returned to his nest Proud He found the fattest female Flipped her over With his filthy fluttering legs He tore open her thorax Then inserted his roach genitalia Into the wound Inseminating her And assuring his legacy While I slept Alone
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Aug 22, 2015
Aug 22, 2015 at 1:11 AM UTC
The 3 AM War Against A Young Cockroach
Application of misinformation Falsify a failed nation, Eradication of all creation Misinterpretation Of representation Deny the station Granted by occupation And the inhalation Of justification No prerequisite information Just accumulation No moderation, Their determination Through stimulation Cultural ************ Communal degradation Societal desecration, Dehumanizing revocation, Worldly humiliation, Mortal sterilization Never achieving mobilization Lack of communication Excelling in vile persuasion, Proponents of procreation Birthing digitization, Destroy civilization, Indications of adoration Isolation in delineation, Irrational indexation, Fluctuating indignation, No innovation, Divination Retaliation, Immolation, False ovation, Lacking limitations, Contextual intonation, Divine fabrication, Private publication, Evolving fornication, Give me extermination, Notwithstanding annexation Of dismaying oxidation, Of valued perpetuation, Global mass-castration, Redundant rhetoric, dictation, A donation, a dilation, a fixation, An annotation of fibrillation, We are personification Of Contamination Through globalization Praising idolization And finalization Through ********** No pragmatic exoneration, In all frustration We see not utilization Nor stabilization, Fearful implications Of wayward stations, Surplus mutilations, Seeking militarization Of worthless nations, No conservation, Just excavation Of the population ******** on education, Spitting on graduation, No validation of aspiration, Indoctrination of baptization Mitigating litigation, murdering habitation, Quelling all vegetation We will end in radiation Through faulty navigation, Abdication and abnegation, All worldly agitation Leads us to expiration, Self-made annihilation. There was never an end in sight, We’re lost, and hope is a lie.
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Aug 31, 2016
Aug 31, 2016 at 8:14 PM UTC
We're Lost.
Application of misinformation Falsify a failed nation, Eradication of all creation Misinterpretation Of representation Deny the station Granted by occupation And the inhalation Of justification No prerequisite information Just accumulation No moderation, Their determination Through stimulation Cultural ************ Communal degradation Societal desecration, Dehumanizing revocation, Worldly humiliation, Mortal sterilization Never achieving mobilization Lack of communication Excelling in vile persuasion, Proponents of procreation Birthing digitization, Destroy civilization, Indications of adoration Isolation in delineation, Irrational indexation, Fluctuating indignation, No innovation, Divination Retaliation, Immolation, False ovation, Lacking limitations, Contextual intonation, Divine fabrication, Private publication, Evolving fornication, Give me extermination, Notwithstanding annexation Of dismaying oxidation, Of valued perpetuation, Global mass-castration, Redundant rhetoric, dictation, A donation, a dilation, a fixation, An annotation of fibrillation, We are personification Of Contamination Through globalization Praising idolization And finalization Through ********** No pragmatic exoneration, In all frustration We see not utilization Nor stabilization, Fearful implications Of wayward stations, Surplus mutilations, Seeking militarization Of worthless nations, No conservation, Just excavation Of the population ******** on education, Spitting on graduation, No validation of aspiration, Indoctrination of baptization Mitigating litigation, murdering habitation, Quelling all vegetation We will end in radiation Through faulty navigation, Abdication and abnegation, All worldly agitation Leads us to expiration, Self-made annihilation. There was never an end in sight, We’re lost, and hope is a lie.
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This poem has been submitted for possible publication. It will be reposted as soon as possible upon final determination. Please feel free to peruse my poesy at your leisure. Thank you so much, PrttyBrd
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 12:30 PM UTC
Letters to My Lover.....VI